I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all … — Rube Goldberg

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Rube GoldbergCartoonist · American · 1883 – 1970

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